My mom used to make fruitcakes and send them to relatives and friends all over the place around Christmas time. She even made fruitcake COOKIES and sent those out, too. My brother and I hated it and thought she had some kind of mental disorder for inflicting them on everybody. Ironically, my wife's parents LOVED them and would hide them so that my BIL's wouldn't find them and eat them.

My grandma used to make her Christmas cake around August or September, seal it in a tin and then open it up every so often to douse it with booze and keep it moist. I didn't ever get to try it (she also used to make a smaller sprog friendly version) but I believe that it was pretty lethal by the time Christmas came around. Having said that I don't particularly like fruit cake or Christmas pudding and can only tolerate mince pies if they have plenty of custard with them.

My mum makes a delicious proper rich fruit Christmas cake too. Family recipe from grandma and her mother before that too no doubt. It's rich but not heavy some of them. The covering of marzipan is a problem because Ma is an addict and eats it before it goes on the cake so I have to do that and then quickly whack on the icing. Then the silver balls and little plastic reindeer. Ho Ho Ho.

ew. i forgot to add mazipan to the list of crap i hate. but christmas fruitcake and marzipan in one hellish concoction? that's fucking disgusting, no offence to your mother

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Standard traditional UK Christmas cake. Rich fruit cake with a thin coat of marzipan, then cover the lot with white icing (frosting). But plenty of people skip the marzipan as it's not a universal favourite it's true. I'm indifferent.

My mom used to make fruitcakes and send them to relatives and friends all over the place around Christmas time. She even made fruitcake COOKIES and sent those out, too. My brother and I hated it and thought she had some kind of mental disorder for inflicting them on everybody. Ironically, my wife's parents LOVED them and would hide them so that my BIL's wouldn't find them and eat them.

Rly? How???!?

Originally Posted by Kittylady

I like Irn Bru!

My grandma used to make her Christmas cake around August or September, seal it in a tin and then open it up every so often to douse it with booze and keep it moist. I didn't ever get to try it (she also used to make a smaller sprog friendly version) but I believe that it was pretty lethal by the time Christmas came around. Having said that I don't particularly like fruit cake or Christmas pudding and can only tolerate mince pies if they have plenty of custard with them.

If I remember correctly, each cookie had a red maraschino cherry and a couple of pecans. And a couple of raisins. And some other stuff I forget. And was covered in some kind of batter that held it all together after it had been cooked. I don't think I've laid eyes on one in like 25 years.

Knodel? Some sort of potato dumpling? They were selling them on Lidl the other day and wanted to get some but the boyfriend said they make the same in Norway and make them better. They call them raspeballer.